From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 14 Sep 93 15:15:18 GMT From: agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!math.ohio-st ate.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei .cmu.edu!wellerd@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (David Weller) Subject: Re: A very successful Ada marketing disaster in Boston Message-ID: <1993Sep14.111518.12380@sei.cmu.edu> List-Id: In article harryr@fsi-ssd.csg.ss d.fsi.com (Harry Rockefeller) writes: > >I also spoke with a professor at Oklahoma State Univ. He said that >the higher ups are pressuring him to drop the Ada requirement for >computer science students. It appears some in authority feel students >are at a disadvantage if their C experience is not up to their peers >in graduate school. > A little bit of news here (and this may be of particular interest to Mike Feldman): The University of Houston at Clear Lake, which has been known for it's commitment to Ada, apparently recently "voted" to drop Ada from the required curriculum. In its place will be a requirement to learn Object-Oriented programming using C++. UHCL, like other universities, is not without political infighting. Seems the ones with the most political pull are rooting for C++. (I have some personal insight to this one, and would be more then glad to point fingers at a certain major contractor here in this area that appears to be exerting an unusual amount of influence (read that: dollars) to have Ada dropped. Looks like they won. However, I'll avoid accusations of slandering by not publicly posting <>'s name here :-) Another one bites the dust, gentleman. dgw -- type My_Disclaimer is new Standard.Disclaimer with record AJPO, SEI : Cognizance := Disavow_All_Knowledge; end record;--)